37 Forty-Eight Meridians!

Back at the Xiao Clan…

"Young Master Su Han, the Grand Patriarch has told me to tell you to head to the meeting room once you returned," the guard said after seeing Su Han had come back.

"Alright."

Su Han nodded, and went back into his room to put down the spirit stones before heading to the meeting room.

Su Han had not given any thought to Liang Shaohui and the others. If not for the crowd at the market, he would have already fought them.

There were already a lot of people sitting in the meeting room when Su Han arrived there.

Su Yunming sat on a seat right below Xiao Hengshan, very close to the front. This showed how courteous Xiao Hengshan had been to Su Han and his father. In the past, the seat was reserved for the Xiao Clan's number one guest official.

"Young Master Su Han, you're back."

"Haha, we're all waiting for you. Come and take a seat."

"Judging from Young Master Su Han's aura, it looks like you've had a breakthrough?"

After Su Han walked in, everyone in the Xiao Clan revealed a smile and were somewhat flattering with their words.

What a joke. If they had still provoked Su Han at this moment, then they would be a bunch of dumbasses.

Xiao Hengshan waved his hand at Su Han and said with a smile, "Come, Su Han, and sit beside me."

He had a seat on each side. One was taken by an expressionless Xiao Yuhui while the other was naturally reserved for Su Han.

As for Xiao Yuran, she didn't attend most of the family meetings since she wasn't able to cultivate.

Su Han sat down without much hesitation.

"Today, I have gathered you all for no other reason than to talk about the Frost Cloud Sect's annual recruitment that is about to happen. The influx of people to Far Mountain Province from other provincial cities has also been much greater. According to my investigations, some even come from county cities. Spread the news to your disciples," said Xiao Hengshan.

"We understand, Grand Patriarch."

Lian Chong said, "We'll tell our disciples to be more cautious for the time being."

"Alright."

Xiao Hengshan nodded and said, "According to my intel, among the people that are coming, there are four groups of people that we definitely cannot mess with."

The others silently waited for Xiao Hengshan to continue speaking.

"These four groups are: Nanqing County City's Leng Clan, Huang'an County City's Hu Clan, Minghai County City's Yang Clan, and Yunyang County City's Liang Clan."

Xiao Hengshan paused for a moment before he continued, "The Leng Clan, Hu Clan, and Yang Clan are all big clans in their own separate county cities and are mighty forces, incomparable to our Far Mountain Province. As for the Liang Clan, although they aren't considered very impressive in Yunyang County City, they have someone who's an inner elder at the Frost Cloud Sect. So, let's avoid provoking them."

"We understand."

Everyone below agreed.

They had encountered such situations often. After all, the Frost Cloud Sect's recruitments had been held annually in the Far Mountain Province, so they were used to it.

The meeting… was mainly held for Su Han.

Although Su Han was talented, he was simply too proud and arrogant. Xiao Hengshan couldn't tell Su Han directly, so he came up with the idea of telling it to him indirectly through this meeting.

"Alright, since you understand, tell your disciples so they can avoid…"

Before Xiao Hengshan could finish, a calm voice came from beside him. "I have already provoked them."

"Hmm?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at Su Han.

"Su Han, what do you mean by that?" Xiao Hengshan asked.

"Just now, when I visited the Thousand Treasure Pavilion, I had a bit of a conflict with Liang Shaohui from the Liang Clan. However, we did not fight," said Su Han.

Su Yunming smiled bitterly. How could he not tell that the Xiao Clan's meeting was held specifically for him and his son? Su Yunming couldn't have imagined that his good son would have already provoked Liang Shaohui.

"What kind of conflict?"

"Young Master Su Han, you…"

"Sigh, we were afraid this was going to happen. This has never happened before!"

Everyone started to speak, evidently dissatisfied that Su Han had provoked Liang Shaohui.

Before 

Su Han and his father had come to live with them, the Xiao Clan had never provoked anyone from the county cities. However, Su Han had already brought them trouble after only staying with them for a short while.

"Thankfully, you only provoked the Liang Clan and not the other three big clans."

Lian Chong said, "However, this is still going to be troublesome. Although First Miss is also an inner disciple at the Frost Cloud Sect, the Liang Clan is still a clan from a county city and therefore much stronger than our Xiao Clan."

"What caused the conflict?" Xiao Hengshan frowned.

"Very soon, you'll know."

Su Han got up and slowly walked out of the hall.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be taking my leave."

Everyone looked at Su Han's back, frowning with displeasure.

You little brat, you brought trouble to the Xiao Clan and still act like nothing happened?

"My apologies, everyone. That's just how Hanny is."

Su Yunming also got up and said gravely, "However, I don't think that Su Han would have intentionally provoked Liang Shaohui. There must be a reason behind this."

After speaking, Su Yunming also left the hall.

"What other reason could there be, other than his cockiness?"

"Humph, no wonder the Su Clan banished Su Han. This troublesome man brings misfortune wherever he goes."

The big crowd in the hall mumbled.

...

Inside his room, Su Han held a poor quality spirit stone in his hand.

The poor quality spirit stone had light rippling on it as a spiritual Qi subtly revolved around it. The spiritual Qi wasn't dissipating, it was being absorbed.

Spirit stones were originally made from the absorption of the spiritual Qi of the world. If this poor quality spirit stone were stored for ten million years, it would very likely turn into an average quality spirit stone.

"This is far worse than what I used in my past life. Let alone a saint crystal, even a bad celestial crystal or a god crystal would be worth at least ten million of these." Su Han shook his head.

He could not appreciate the spirit stone that was considered extremely valuable by others.

"However, there's no other options. This will have to do for now."

Smiling bitterly, Su Han took a deep breath and began circulating the Dragon Vein Emperor Art.

Bam!

The instant the Dragon Vein Emperor Art circulated, an incredible spiritual energy immediately erupted from the spirit stone in Su Han's hand.

The spiritual energy from before was a small creek compared to the tsunami of spiritual energy contained within the spirit stone.

"It's not too bad."

Su Han's eyes flickered, and dragon Qi suddenly erupted from his whole body and turned into a curtain of light that wrapped up all of the spiritual Qi. Not a single bit managed to escape.

"With this one spirit stone, I think I can probably open three to five more meridians. However, as I open more meridians, the cost of spiritual Qi for opening each meridian also grows greater and greater."

As Su Han took a deep breath, the incredible spiritual Qi quickly gushed into every part of his body.

Thump thump thump!

In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed.

A total of three dull sounds emerged from Su Han's body, and three bright beams of light instantly erupted!

"Forty-eight!'

Su Han's mouth curled up and mumbled as he felt the spiritual energy flowing inside of him. "With what's remaining, I can open one more!"